The thread that weaves memory. Teaching and research as an axis for remembering the history of textile materials

Abstract

Textiles have been instruments of diverse narratives throughout human history. This article proposes to share the practical and didactic textile experience built by the convergence of methodologies from different areas of knowledge, mainly the History of Art, Fashion and Textile Conservation and Restoration, reflecting on how the different intertwining of threads are capable of building meanings from the permanence of the memory of doing. Approaching the stories, materials and techniques of traditional textile “doings”, transdisciplinarity is placed as a facilitating axis, bringing areas together and creating a place for discussions and experimentation, whose dialogue allows the necessary scope for the legitimacy of the theme: the remembrance of textile making and of your values. In this memory texere, the rescues of values ​​are re-woven, enabling continuity of practices and teaching for their contemporary reception and enjoyment.